The Sanctioning of a Lawyer: Francesca Albanese and the Hierarchy of Human Rights
Francesca Albanese's book, When the world Sleeps, highlights the asymmetry in international human rights.
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June 21, 2026
Hatred: Populist Othering and Social Upheaval – Balancing the Analysis
The othering of groups within society to drive political aims is an Imbalanced, failing in its basic analysis due to the inconsistent metrics applied across all groups.
June 11, 2026
Indonesia, West Papua and the World’s Largest Deforestation Project
The destruction of West Papua's farmland and forests represents an ecological and cultural disaster, compounding the atrocious human rights record on the island.
June 10, 2026
The Impact and the Distance: Friendship Across Two Decades
Sometimes, the profoundness of a friendship is not fully realised until that friend is lost. We all know this. Today for Blak and Blak, for me personally, it is the…
June 9, 2026
The Imagination Of A Nation: Shabbat Tables, Policy Failures and the Future We Must Choose
Immigrants, most of whom came to Australia legally, are not the cause of the problems we face; that fault lies with the policies of successive governments.
June 5, 2026
The Oneness of Humanity: Universal Themes in Global Indigenous Creation Myths
Commonalities in Creation myths across Indigenous cultures point toward a shared origin and universal imagination.
June 3, 2026
G’day: A Chorus of Many Voices
One nation? Yes – but wide as all its peoples, deep as the Dreaming, old as the first rain.
June 2, 2026
The Woman Who Spoke Truth To Impunity: Francesca Albanese, The United Nations, And The Price Of Conscience
I. A Room Without Empathy On 30 October 2024, Francesca Albanese – UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories – stood before the General Assembly and said what those…
May 31, 2026
International Law, State Violence and Australia’s Obligation to Its Citizens
Australia must formalise a response to the detention and mistreatment of its citizens by Israeli authorities participating the Global Freedom Flotilla.
May 23, 2026
Before the Body, the Book: Palestinian Erasure and Civilisational Destruction
Destruction of Palestinian artefacts and books, including the places of learning, are core features of genocide.
May 22, 2026
The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis
Domestic violence in Australia is a cultural scourge, one for which men must take responsibility to lead its eradication.
May 21, 2026
The Fascination with France, the French and the French Way Of Life
French insists that the good life is possible, refusing the settle for second rate and pursuing all aspect of life and culture with a seriousness unique to its people.
May 18, 2026
Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Racism / Refugees / Shared humanity
We Were All Made In The Image: On othering, humanism and the Enlightenment legacy
Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.
May 16, 2026
One Nation, the Farrer By-Election and the Sickness of Western Democracy
Farrer has become the canary in the electoral mine, highlighting that voters in regional areas have had enough of being ignored.
May 12, 2026
ACT Government / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Rule of Law
Exercising Justice: A Review of the Transgressions of Notable Legal Practitioners
Justice requires that legal practitioners be held to the same standards as the rest of the community, but not all jurisdictions accept that fact.
May 10, 2026
The Unbreakable Spirit: Bobby Sands, Resistance and Colonial Injustice
The desire for freedom is common to all people, a matter that will drive resistance against an oppressor.
May 9, 2026
The Club in Eternity: A Dialogue in Moves
Chess and coffee in eternity. The Universal Consciousness discusses the futures of humanity with Dr Adnan Al-Bursh.
May 5, 2026
The Dream Dreaming Us
Realisation of the full breadth of the what this land is and what it offers requires that we accept both the bright of the Dream and that which lies in the shadows.
May 4, 2026